HMS Resolution Returning to Portsmouth

From the Richard Eurich interview by James Mellen done in 1978 for the Imperial War Museum "Artists in an Age of Conflict" series of sound recordings

"I did that large painting of the battleship coming into Portsmouth, which was one of the first things I did. The officers down at Portsmouth looked at it with a very critical eye. Some of them said ‘ I’m sure there weren’t quite so many brass hats as that on the bridge.’ Another chap said ‘yes there were, they were coming back from the Mediterranean.’ The only fault they could find with it was, …

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From the Richard Eurich interview by James Mellen done in 1978 for the Imperial War Museum "Artists in an Age of Conflict" series of sound recordings

"I did that large painting of the battleship coming into Portsmouth, which was one of the first things I did. The officers down at Portsmouth looked at it with a very critical eye. Some of them said ‘ I’m sure there weren’t quite so many brass hats as that on the bridge.’ Another chap said ‘yes there were, they were coming back from the Mediterranean.’ The only fault they could find with it was, one chap said ‘There’s a hatchway missing.’ So that really was very high praise indeed, I think."

This painting was destroyed during enemy action, along with three others - Destroyer and Minesweeper (1941), Night Attack Over Southampton Water (1941) and Trawler Against Heinkel (1941). Click the 'Lost at Sea' category tag for more of the story.